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From: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 4xx support in arch/ppc is going away Real Soon Now
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On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 14:53:47 +0300
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 09:11:48AM -0600, Grant Likely wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 8:52 AM, Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> > > This commit (patch omitted due to size) is sitting in my local tree:
> > >
> > > commit 0d7efc1e80fc262bcc507a605482c5681e3f082a
> > > Author: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > Date:   Thu Jun 5 09:46:17 2008 -0500
> > >
> > >    ppc/4xx: Remove 4xx support from arch/ppc
> > >
> > >    Remove support for PPC 403, 405, and 440 processors from arch/ppc.  The
> > >    arch/powerpc equivalents should be used.  Boards that are not ported yet
> > >    will need to be ported to arch/powerpc to have continued support.
> > 
> > This looks like unneeded churn.
> > 
> > Paulus, Can we just kill all of arch/ppc for .27 right now?
> 
> Is anyone already working on doing this and the cleanups that will then 
> be possible?
> 
> Otherwise I'll be glad to contribute to it.   :)

I think we can handle it.  Thanks though.

josh